Issue
I need to retrieve the info of an installed RPM (rpm -q "systemd" -i) in XML format. According to the manual, it should be possible using --qf and -i, but I can't find the way to do it.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Solution
Try this:
rpm -qa --xml
This seems to work at least in CentOS 7. Man page about rpm commands query format is misleading IMO.
EDIT:
If the above is not sufficient, then you probably need to construct the xml yourself with the queryformat. Like this:
rpm -q systemd --qf "<name>%{NAME}</name><version>%{version}</version>\n"
You can check available tags with --querytags:
rpm --querytags
Answered By - StefanR